Throughout the West there is a remorseless assault on free speech through the agency of human rights commissions, political correctness and racial discrimination laws. It was a sad day for free sppech in Australia, when on 28th September 2011 Justice Bromberg in a long, rambling homily, found Andrew Bolt and the Herald & Weekly Times guilty of conduct that contravened section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. In two columns, journalist Andrew Bolt, made some fairly innocuous comments about fair-skinned Aboriginals getting special benefits because of their claimed Aboriginality. (full story) As the ABC and its left-wing and Marxist cohorts in academia and the Fairfax Group are railing against loosening the restriction of free speech imposed by the notorious Racial Discrimination Act, it is worth reflecting on Mark Steyn’s essay in the National Review of August 29, 2011. GAGGING US SOFTLY To be honest, I didn’t really think much about “freedom…